Abundance and the Left
“Abundance,” the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, hit bookstore shelves a little over a month ago, and the response has been beyond anything I could have imagined. And it’s generated a lot of inte...
29 Huhti 20251h 14min
Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics
I have no earthly idea how to describe this conversation. It’s about religion and belief – at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.My guest and I come from very different persp...
25 Huhti 20251h 35min
The Very American Roots of Trumpism
After last week’s episode, “The Emergency Is Here,” we got a lot of emails. And the most common reply was: You really think we’ll have midterm elections in 2026? Isn’t that naïve?I think we will have ...
23 Huhti 20251h 13min
The Emergency Is Here
The president of the United States is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists: a prison built for disappearance, a prison where there is no education or remediation or recreation, a ...
17 Huhti 20251h 12min
Tom Friedman Thinks We’re Getting China Dangerously Wrong
My colleague Tom Friedman thinks we’re screwed.That’s the first thing he told me when recounting his recent trip to China. It’s not just because of the trade war that President Trump is escalating rig...
15 Huhti 20251h 8min
Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes Next
After a week of market chaos, President Trump pulled back from the brink. But he didn’t pull that far back. He left a 10 percent tariff on most of the world and launched a trade war with China. It’s u...
11 Huhti 20251h
Paul Krugman on the ‘Biggest Trade Shock in History’
The tariffs President Trump unveiled this week were both bigger than most people expected and a lot more confusing. These aren’t the flat tariffs he proposed during the campaign. And they aren’t recip...
5 Huhti 202550min
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’
There’s something of a policy revolution afoot: As of March, more than a dozen states — including California, Florida and Ohio — have passed bills or adopted policies that aim to limit cellphone usage...
1 Huhti 20251h 11min
